Abstract Although wayfinding is a central domain for 4E research, much work on spatial cognition and navigation still operates within an internalist framework. This is particularly damaging in evaluating the cognitive impact of technologies like Global Positioning Systems (GPS), where negative assessments about ‘de-skilling’ and the digital disruption of biocognitive spatial memory capacities...
Abstract Working outwards from one dream report in the Threshold Worlds database, this chapter examines three aspects of permeability or ‘cognitive transit’ in dream experience, relating to perspective, planning, and precision. Reports of seeing oneself in the dreamed scene are common, and don’t require us to postulate an extra ‘self’. A plan formulated in the dream escapes, finding a life of...
Abstract Integrative and naturalistic philosophy of mind can both learn from and contribute to the contemporary cognitive sciences of dreaming. Two related phenomena concerning self‐representation in dreams demonstrate the need to bring disparate fields together. In most dreams, the protagonist or dream self who experiences and actively participates in dream events is or represents the dreamer:...
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